![]() The brilliant author went on to write more than six hundred stories and published ten collections in his lifetime. The second, The Four Million, got published two years later which included his well-known stories The Gift of the Magi and The Furnished Room. His first collection of stories Cabbages and Kings was published in 1904. It was in prison that he started writing short stories under the pseudonym of “O. He had to serve a five-year sentence, for embezzling funds from the bank, at the Federal Penitentiary, Columbus, Iowa. Having given up formal education at the age of fifteen to apprentice under a pharmacist, he later changed his mind and worked as a bookkeeper in a Texas ranch while also working as a teller in the National Bank of Austin. Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1862, William Sydney Porter went on to write some of the most memorable short stories of all times. ![]()
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